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Tanner Mester shows his scar where he was stabbed in the chest by Eric Lund in a drunken encounter as he was walking home from a bar along Adams Ave. in Huntington Beach in 2011. To Mester's surprise, Lund was permitted, as part of a...More

Tanner Mester shows his scar where he was stabbed in the chest by Eric Lund in a...Tanner Mester shows his scar where he was stabbed in the chest by Eric Lund in a drunken encounter as he was walking home from a bar along Adams Ave. in Huntington Beach in 2011. To Mester's surprise, Lund was permitted, as part of a plea deal, an option Mester didn't even know existed -- for $100 a night, pay to stay a smaller city jail instead of the overcrowded dingy Orange County jail. Lund paid $36,500 to serve his year-long sentence in Seal Beach jail for aggravated assault. Mester, who had served time in state prison for drug offenses as a younger man, was trying to turn his life around at the time, with a newborn child and a budding plumbing business. Photo taken Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016.LessMore